Over half of Davos participants went to a top university. “If you want to become one of the global elite, you should probably attend college.” (Business Insider)

Food, energy and water: the politics of the nexus. Forum research opens this piece arguing that global priorities don’t always reflect local concerns. (The Guardian)

World Cup 2014: Why tiny Belgium beat huge Russia. “The reason Russia lost has less to do with soccer than with free-market economics.” (Bloomberg, LiveMint, MalayMail) And more coverage of the Competitiveness World Cup. (El Universal, AllAfrica)

On our radar

The pitchforks are coming…for us plutocrats. Jeff Bezos helped make Nick Hanauer a billionaire. But now Hanauer is warning that America is “rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society” thanks to rising and unchecked inequality.

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